Bharadraj 1977 Testimony (VIDEO)

PADA: Oh oh. Manipulating Srila Prabhupada's statements in his last days. "I knew then that something was horribly wrong." And -- it was. And it still is. ys pd

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This is a comment from Lenny Sislac

“A Spiritual Master must be liberated.”

"But otherwise, he is not guru, one who has not understood Kṛṣṇa." Or, "If you do not get a qualified guru, then everything is bogus".

But there is no response. Silence. Present ISKCON congregation wants pseudo gurus because if there is a real guru then sense gratification would stop. So they don't want to discuss genuine guru-tattva. Over at the astrology forum, it's busy. They all hang out there because astrology is helping them to find a good opportunity to snag money.

Prabhupāda: They are satisfied if they could construct one temple and beg some rice from the neighborhood: "Sir, we have got some temple," that's all. They are satisfied. The spirit of preaching forward-pāpī tāpī jata chilo, hari-nāme uddhārilo—that is stopped. So by hari-nāma, by chanting, by this way, to live little peacefully in the temple and eat and sleep, that much they have got. If that is the success, that success they have got. And this was condemned by my Guru Mahārāja, that "To earn some money by showing Deity in the temple and eat and sleep—better you become a sweeper in the street and earn your honest livelihood and live." 

This is cheating. This was condemned. To construct a temple.... Just like the Vṛndāvana Gosvāmīs are doing. They thought that "This is our business. Some innocent people will come here and offer some.... Bas, that's our good income." According to the temple's popularity, they think, "This is our success." 

Therefore they are deteriorating. So that is not success. Success is his who is pushing forward the preaching method. That is his success. And if we think that "By showing a temple Deity we get some money and rice and cloth and just peacefully live here. Don't bother about going to Fiji and all over..." (laughs) That much success they have got. But that is not Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma, sarvatra pracāra. What they are doing for that? That is point.

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May 2, 1976, Fiji